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Offshore electricity transmission

Minded-to Decision and further consultation on Pathway to 2030

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We previously published a consultation in July 2021 “Consultation on changes intended to bring about greater coordination in the development of offshore energy networks” and an update in January 2022, following responses to the July 2021 consultation.

Today we are publishing our minded-to decision to apply a ‘very late competition - generator build’ model to non-radial offshore transmission in scope of the Pathway to 2030 (PT2030) workstream of the Offshore Transmission Network Review (OTNR) and consultation on the consequential arrangements that may be required to implement the ‘very late competition - generator build’ model, for non-radial offshore transmission.

This document is published alongside a draft impact assessment, which sets out our assessment of our minded to decision on delivery model decision.

Within our minded-to decision and further consultation on PT2030 we also confirm our consultation position that radial offshore transmission should be delivered through one of the existing models.

Respond name

Cher-Rae Fairlie/ Viljami Yli-Hemminki

Respond telephone

[020 7901 3902 / 020 3263 2755](tel:020 7901 3902 / 020 3263 2755)

Respond email

Offshore.coordination@ofgem.gov.uk

Main document

[Minded-to Decision and further consultation on Pathway to 2030 [PDF, 566.98KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-05/Minded-to%20Decision%20and%20further%20consultation%20on%20Pathway%20to%202030_Final1652962587083.pdf)

Subsidiary documents

[Draft Impact Assessment on Pathway to 2030 workstream's minded-to decision [PDF, 768.68KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-05/Draft_Impact_Assessment_PT2030_Final.pdf)

Response documents

[Celtic Sea Power Response [PDF, 484.46KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Celtic%20Sea%20Power%20Response.pdf)

[Copenhagen Offshore Partners Response [PDF, 191.77KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Copenhagen%20Offshore%20Partners%20Response.pdf)

[Crown Estate Scotland Response [PDF, 577.05KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Crown%20Estate%20Scotland%20Response.pdf)

[EnBW and BP Response [PDF, 2.79MB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/EnBW%20and%20BP%20Response.pdf)

[Equinor Response [PDF, 603.24KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Equinor%20Response.pdf)

[Equitix Response [PDF, 357.19KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Equitix%20Response.pdf)

[ESO Response [PDF, 393.30KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/ESO%20Response.pdf)

[Floating Energy Allyance Response [PDF, 216.11KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Floating%20Energy%20Allyance%20Response.pdf)

[Magnora Offshore Wind Response [PDF, 371.88KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Magnora%20Offshore%20Wind%20Response.pdf)

[Marubeni Response [PDF, 183.49KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Marubeni%20Response.pdf)

[National Grid Ventures Response [PDF, 582.59KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/National%20Grid%20Ventures%20Response.pdf)

[RenewableUK Response [PDF, 301.29KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/RenewableUK%20Response.pdf)

[RWE Response [PDF, 208.67KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/RWE%20Response.pdf)

[Scottish Power Response [PDF, 1.12MB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Scottish%20Power%20Response.pdf)

[Scottish Renewables Response [PDF, 213.29KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Scottish%20Renewables%20Response.pdf)

[SPT Response1670590341092 [PDF, 236.67KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/SPT%20Response1670590341092.pdf)

[SSENT Response [PDF, 277.16KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/SSENT%20Response.pdf)

[The Crown Estate Response [PDF, 530.36KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/The%20Crown%20Estate%20Response.pdf)

[The Wildlife Trust Response [PDF, 201.45KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/The%20Wildlife%20Trust%20Response.pdf)

[Transmission Capital Partners Response [PDF, 132.63KB]

](https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/Transmission%20Capital%20Partners%20Response.pdf)

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